Inability to launch responsive server possibly due to package version issues about exbert

[bhoov]

Apologies for the long delay. We are preparing this repository for ACL 2020 Demos and I ported the backend to fastapi.

Would love to work with you to make sure you can run this locally on your machine for your needs. I will be switching from other things to polishing this for the next week or so.

[wrosko]

@bhoov hey, no worries at all! Would love to try to work with you this week, helping identify bugs and whatnot for getting it going on my local machine. Hopefully will be helpful to you in polishing it up too.

[bhoov]

Awesome. Step 1 -- do you have any issues running python server/main.py with the new FastAPI architecture?

[wrosko]

Step 1) No problem running the makefile command, although trying to get the server to start I ended up having to do a pip install -e . for the respective directories. I was hitting some error in spacyface

Upon starting the loading of various huggingface models worked seamlessly. I did run into a bug when switching models after I had already done a query. Will try to reproduce this

[bhoov]

Ok neat, I think I fixed the need to run a separate pip install -e . for the other directories. If you do manage to reproduce the bug feel free to make a new issue